Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) I and II 1972, 1974

The strategic Arms Limitation Treaty consisted of two rounds of talks between USA and the USSR to negotiate the issue of armament control. The talks were named SALT I and SALT II. SALT I began in 1969 and ended in 1972 and lead to the the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) and the Interim Agreement on the limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. Both were signed on May 26, 1972. SALT II began in 1974 this was intended to accomplish nuclear parity but was interrupted by the USSR invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

Summary

In a summit meeting in Moscow, after two and a half years of negotiation, the first round of SALT was brought to a conclusion on May 26, 1972, when President Nixon and General Secretary Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty and the Interim Agreement on strategic offensive arms. However the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 ended the SALT talks for good